The Treatment of Supracondylar Fractures of the Femur with Zickel Supracondylar Nails.
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Supracondylar-condylar fractures of the femur.
A retrospective study of 34 patients with supracondylar-condylar fractures of the femur admitted to the Alexandra Hospital, Singapore, from January 1979 to December 1983 was carried out. These fractures were surgically treated by AO principles and fixation, and the surgery performed mainly by the two authors. Using strict criteria adopted from Schatzker of Toronto, 1 it was found that 62% of pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Orthopedics & Traumatology
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1349-4333,0037-1033
DOI: 10.5035/nishiseisai.40.310